Ali Nazmi

Ali Nazmi (, pen name of Ali Mammadzadeh (''Əli Məmmədzadə''), 1878, Sarov–January 1, 1946, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet, a representative of the 20th-century Azerbaijani realism and successor of Mirza Alakbar Sabir. Nazmi was the first translator of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' into Azerbaijani.

Nazmi's first poem ''A Start to the Village'' was published in 1904. In 1926-1931 Nazmi was a secretary of ''Molla Nasraddin'' magazine. During the Soviet-German War he wrote several satires: ''Hitler's Union with Devil'', ''Wolf's Protest Against God'', ''My Homeland'' and others. Nazmi strived for the purity of Azerbaijani language against Pan-Turkists and Panislamists. Provided by Wikipedia